Apparatus for pressing cigars



(No Model.)

F. R. DE BSTENOZ. APPARATUS FOR PRESSING GIGARS. No. 489,934. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCISCO R. DE ES'IENOZ, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

APPARATUS FOR PRESSING CIGARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,934, dated November 4, 1890. Application filed November 7, 1889. Serial N0. 829,549. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCISCO R. DE TENOZ, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Pressing Cigars, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a novel adjustable cigar-press, as hereinafter described.

It further consists of a novel cigar-press, as hereinafter described, having a sliding gage, substantially as described.

It further consists of apress having an adjustable frame with parallel bars having their ends movable therein, said bars having corrugations, the elevations and depressions of which extend the length thereof, and mechanism for uniformly moving said bars toward each other.

It further consists of the combination of parts hereinafter described.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a press embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a central longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 represents a detail perspective view of top and bottom pressure devices. Fig. 4 represents a detail perspective view of a portion of one of the pressure-bars.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, Adesignates the base of the device, having a central longitudinal groove 15, in which is fitted an adjustable gage C, formed with an end guard D, a slot E for the passage therethrough of a clampingscrew F, and uprights G, between which is mounted the pressing-frame H, one end of said base being also formed with a flange or upright A. A portion of the side edges of said base A have guides J, on the inside surface of either one or both of which .is a graduated scale K, as shown in Fig. 2.

On the base-rest A, adjacent to the ends of the guides J, are secured inclines L, on which the frame H is mounted. The said frame H comprises end rails M, connected to side rails N, one of said rails having a corrugated, fiuted, ribbed, or toothed surface, and the inner faces of side rails N are formed with grooves or recesses P, one of said rails N having a throat Q opening into said groove or recess. 1

R represents parallel pressure-bars having guiding-tongues S mounted in the grooves P of the side rails N, and arms T project lon gitudinally from the said bars R to prevent thetip and head of a cigar from coming into cont-act with the side rails N, when the cigars are moved by the sliding movement of the bars R or the frame H. One or both surfaces of the bars R are formed with corrugations, flutings, ribs, or teeth extending throughout their length, and are also adapted to centrally receive dies or type R to impress a trade-name, makers or dealers name, &c.,-as may be desired. The object of having the corrugations extend the entire length of the bar is that the cigar when pressed will be evenly or uniformly packed its entire length, so that it will burn evenly on the sides thereof. The said bars R are inserted in the grooves P in the side rails N by having one end thereof first inserted in the rail N, without the throat, and the opposite'ends of said bars then passed through the throat Q into the opposingly-situated rail N. Owing to the throat Q, the several bars B may be removed and replaced or substituted by others of different pressing contours, and having similar or dissimilar dies, type, &c., as desired. After the bars B have been inserted in the grooves P clamping-bar U is also inserted in said grooves behind the said bars, and when the bars have been properly spaced with relation to the cigars located between them by sliding the same one or more wedge or clamping blocks V are interposed between said clamping-bar U and the inner edge of the adjacent end rail M.

To fill the frame H with cigars, it is necessary for the best results that each cigar shall occupy such a position between the bars R that the longitudinal median line thereof shall coincide with the same line of each of the said bars R, to thereby equalize the pressure exerted against said cigars. To readily accomplish this adjustment of the cigars, the frame H is caused to travel up or down on the inclines L by loosening the screw F and adjusting the gage O, and the frame H,

I the bars R the proper distance.

being carried by said gage, partakes of the same adjustment. The parts are so relatively adjusted that if a cigar be placed between the guard D of the gage C and the flange or upright A of the base-rest A and the said guard be pressed against the cigar the frame H will occupy such a position on the inclines L as to cause a coincidence of the median line of each cigar with the same line of each bar B when the cigars are inserted between the bars. The construction of the parts also admits of an adjustment by sliding the frame l-I backward or forward until the cigars sink between The degree of adjustment having been ascertained by either of the above-stated methods, and if it be desired to operate upon a quantity of cigars having like proportions the screw F is tightened to clamp the gage O and hold the frame H stationary. It will be understood that during the previous operations the bars R have had a free sliding movement, that the gage O has the function of temporarily carrying the frame H and by the guard D, with flange A, forming a means of acquiring a degree of adjustment. The cigars are then inserted between the bars R, and the clampingbar U is then pressed up against the rear bar R and the wedges or blocks V interposed between said clamping-bar and the adjacent end rail M of the frame H to thereby exert a pressure on the cigars between the said bars R. A number of said frames H may be employed and a removal and substitution thereof as operated upon may be continued until a stack of a preferred number shall have been obtained.

When the frame H has been adjusted to the requisite degree with relation to a quantity of cigars of a similar size which are to be arranged in and pressed between the bars R, a similar ad j ustment of said frame can always be maintained by reference to the scale K on the side strips J of the base A. The corrugations, flutings, ribs, or teeth on the bars R tend to cause a more firm adhesion of the cigar-wrappers, in addition to producing an artistic exterior configuration on each cigar.

To provide for a bottom and top pressure on the cigars, corrugated, toothed, ribbed, or fluted boardsWand W, Fig. 3,are employed, and the frame H as filled being placed between said boards. When the required stack is obtained, it is subjected to pressure, thus forming a similar or a different exterior configuration on the cigars to that impressed by the parts of the press H, according to the contour of the boards.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A base combined with a pressing-frame having sliding bars, a clamping-bar adapted to bear against one of said bars, wedge or clamping blocks interposed between the clamping-bar and the adjacent end of the frame to produce apressure 011 the said clamping-bar and adjustable bars, and a sliding gage carrying said frame, substantially as described.

2. In a cigar-pressing device,a base having inclines thereon, combined with a removable sliding frame having sliding bars therein and clamping devices for said bars, substantially as described.

3. In a cigar-pressing device,abase having inclines L and an adjustable gage, apressure frame removably carried by said gage having bars therein, and clamping devices for said bars, substantially as described.

4. In a cigar-pressing device, a base having inclines attached thereto, an adjustable gage mounted therein, having uprights and an end guard, a pressure-frame having sliding bars, and clamping devices for said bars, said frame being removably mounted between said uprights of the gage, substantially as described.

5. In a cigar-pressing device, a base combined with a pressure-frame having sliding bars removably mounted therein, provided with arms T near the ends thereof and at a right angle thereto, clamping devices for said bars, and a gage carrying said frame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

6. In a cigar-pressing device, a pressureframe having grooved or recessed side rails, sliding bars having right-angular tongues mounted in said grooved or recessed side rails, arms T, contiguous to and parallel with said tongues, and clamping devices for said bars, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

7. In a cigar-pressing device, the combination of a pressing-frame H, having end rails M, side rails N, the latter being formed with recesses or slots P, one of which has a throat Q, pressure-bars R, having tongues S, adapted to be inserted in the recesses or slots P in one of the rails N and then in the other through the throat Qthereof, and clamping devices for said bars, substantially as described.

8. In a cigar-pressing device, a base, a pressure-frame removably mounted on said base, sliding bars carried by said frame havin g their opposite surfaces formed with flutes or corrugations, and central type or die receiving recesses with detachable plates or boards having their surfaces fluted or corrugated and between two of which the aforesaid frames are placed, substantially as described.

9. In a cigar-press, an adjustable frame having parallel bars with their ends movable therein, said bars being provided with corrugations or flutes thereon, the elevations and depressions thereof extending the length of the bars, and mechanism, substantially as described, for moving said bars uniformly toward each other, said parts being combined substantially as described.

FRANCISCO R. DE ESTENOZ.

YVitnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, L. JENNINGS. 

